{"id":2000,"date":"2011-04-29T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T09:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2011-04-28T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:01:41","slug":"my-stay-at-porini-lion-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/my-stay-at-porini-lion-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"My Stay at Porini Lion Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first ever trip to the famous Masai Mara. To say I was excited was a bit of an understatement.<\/p>\n

From Nairobi, I caught the Safarilink flight to the Mara. Upon landing, I was approached my guide from Porini Lion Camp<\/a>, who was dressed in traditional Masai garb – and welcomed warmly to the Mara. <\/p>\n

\"game-drive-to-porini-lion-camp\"We set off in the open Land Rover, and within 5 minutes we came across 2 lions snoozing under a tree. We left them, continued on our way … and saw a leopard running fast through the bush, hotly pursued by a lioness. So within 10 minutes, the tally was already 3 lion and one leopard. We followed the leopard for a bit, then went back to find out why he was running away – and realised that he had been chased off his fresh kill (of an impala), and there was the original lioness and her 3 sisters, tussling with the carcass as they each tried to take it for their own. Lion count now 6. And 15 minutes into my first Mara game drive. To say I was impressed was another understatement. <\/p>\n

And it just got better and better. Wildlife everywhere – more lion, elephant, giraffe, buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, topis (a form of antelope), impala … the list really did go on and on.<\/p>\n

\"game-drive-from-airstrip-to-porini-lion-camp-with-jackson-and-steve\"Porini Lion Camp is located just outside the Masai Mara Reserve, in the 20,000 acre Olare Orok Conservancy. I arrived at Porini Lion Camp, and settled into my tent – extremely spacious, a comfortable double and single bed, an en-suite bathroom with flushing WC and a bucket shower. Everyone at the camp was extremely friendly, and I was already starting to wish I had longer here than just one night (the downside of a business trip !).<\/p>\n

The food was extremely good, no complaints there at all. <\/p>\n

My 2 guides were great – Jackson and Steve – and I learnt a lot from them in my game drives, including how to age a lion (by the colour of its nose apparently).<\/p>\n

All in all, yes, I would highly recommend Porini Lion Camp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first ever trip to the famous Masai Mara. To say I was excited was a bit of an understatement. From Nairobi, I caught the Safarilink flight to the Mara. Upon landing, I was approached my guide from Porini Lion Camp, who was dressed in traditional Masai garb – and welcomed warmly to the Mara. […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,772],"tags":[49,449,865,774,864],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-holidays","category-kenya","tag-leopard","tag-lion","tag-maasi-mara","tag-masai-mara","tag-porini-lion-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}